Garment



R. T. ALLlS July 19, 1938.

GARMENT Filed July 14. 1936 ATTORNEY Patented July 19, 1938 UNITEDSTATES PATENT FIE Application July 14, 1936, Serial No. 90,498

3 Claims.

This invention relates to an upper garment section, such as a brassire,adapted to be associated with and to overlap a lower garment section,such as a girdle, and has for its main object and feature the provisionof means to cause the lower portion of the brassire to lie flat inproper overlapped relation on the outside of the lower garment section.

In the accompanying drawing the invention is disclosed in a concrete andpreferred form in which:

Fig. l is a view in front elevation of a corset or the like composed ofupper and lower garment sections, embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a rear view of the corset shown in Fig. 1 with the parts shownin their open position;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary detail View of a part of the lower portion ofthe upper garment section; and

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional w'ew substantially on the plane of line 44 of Fig. 3 and showing also a portion of the lower garment section.

I indicates a lower garment section, usually called a girdle and 2 is anupper garment section generally referred to by the name brassire. Theupper and lower garment sections are independent units but areassociated in such a way that the lower portion of the brassire overlapsthe upper portion of the girdle and, preferably, fastening means areprovided to secure the two garment sections together.

If such fastening means are to be used in connection with the presentinvention, they will preferably consist of elastic tapes 3 anchored on35 the lower portion of the brassire at a point 4 above the lower edgeof the brassire. Said tapes may conveniently be provided with hooks 5adapted to engage in eyelets 6 on the girdle, and there may be two ormore of such eyelets above one another to make the assembly fit diierentfigures. Ihe lower portion of the brassire preferably consists of twoplies of material l and 8, and tape 3 extends between said plies andemerges through an opening 9 at a point above the lower edge of thebrassire.

In the preferred form herein disclosed there are, as shown by thedrawing, two tapes on the inside front and two tapes on the inside rearof the brassire.

50 The means for causing the lower portion of the brassire to lie flaton the outside of the girdle are preferably as follows: I0 indicates asubstantially vertical boning, in the lower portion of the brassire,extending substantially parallel to each tape, and I I indicates adiagonally extending boning, also carried by the lower portion of thebrassire, and lying with its upper end I2 adjacent the anchorage point 4of the tape, and with its lower end I3 adjacent the lower end of boningIG. 'I'he result is that when a pull is exerted on tape 3 (as indicatedby the arrow denoting its extension in Fig. 3), a lengthwise thrust willbe imparted to boning I I as indicated by the arrow, and this in turnwill tend to impart a downward thrust to boning I0.

As previously indicated there are preferably four tapes 3, and therewill preferably be associated with each tape the boning described and,when considering the arrangement either at the front or at the rear ofthe brassire, it will be observed that boning II associated with the twotapes extends in a downwardly diverging direction with respect to eachother.

The boning used in the brassire may, of course, be made of any suitablematerial such as bone, Celluloid, metal, etc.

I claim:

1. In an upper garment section adapted to be associated with and tooverlap a lower garment section, substantially vertically extendingboning at the lower portion of the upper section, diagonally extendingboning also carried at the lower portion of the upper section with thelower end thereof adjacent the lower end of the vertical boning, andfastening means to secure the upper and lower sections together anchoredon the upper section at a point adjacent the upper end of the diagonalboning to thereby transmit a lengthwise thrust to the diagonal boningand through the latter a downward thrust to the vertical boning inresponse to a downward pull on the fastening means.

2. In an upper garment section adapted to be associated with and tooverlapl a lower garment section, fastening means for securing thesections together anchored on the lower portion of the upper section ata point above the lower edge thereof, boning carried by the lowerportion of the upper section and extending substantially parallel to thefastening means, and diagonal boning carried by the upper section andextending from a point substantially adjacent the upper end of thefastening means to a point substantially adjacent the lower end of thevertical boning.

3. In a brassire or the like composed at least in part of two plies ofmaterial, a diagonally extending boning carried at the lower portionthereof, and fastening means to secure the brassire to a lower garmentsection anchored on said brassire between the plies thereof at a pointadjacent the upper end of the boning and emerging from between saidplies at a point above the lower edge of the brassire.

ROBERT T. ALLIS.

